Announcing the New Revenue Watch Resource Center!

The Revenue Watch Institute is excited to announce the formal launch of its online Resource Center, a tool for knowledge-sharing and transparency advocacy.

The Resource Center, available at http://resources.revenuewatch.org, gives activists, civil society members, government officials, legislators, journalists and students access to hundreds of documents on the management of natural resource wealth. It provides an interactive database of research, training and policy documents, based on a wide range of international expertise, analysis and recommended practices.

RWI Deputy Director Suneeta Kaimal described how the Resource Center compiles and organizes existing and emerging knowledge. "Revenue Watch sits at the center of a diverse network of scholars, experts and practitioners," said Kaimal, "and a core part of our mission is to help that network share knowledge and collaborate to advance the transparency and accountability agenda."

For civil society members, researchers and policy-makers who do not want to "reinvent the wheel," the Resource Center provides a centralized location for lessons and wisdom on responsible revenue management, maximization of natural resource wealth, and transparent and accountable governance.

The growing array of Resource Center materials includes:

•    RESEARCH: country-specific publications, regional and global studies from academics, international financial institutions and civil society groups 
•    TRAINING: videos, slideshows presentation materials from leading academics, and a range of downloadable training tools 
•    OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS: government laws, policies, statements, EITI documents and other official publications from sub-national, federal and international authorities 
•     BACKGROUNDERS: overviews and brief introductions from RWI on many of the key issues facing citizens, investors, policy-makers and advocates

The Resource Center is a growing repository of material from Revenue Watch, its partners and all the institutions, organizations and individuals who contribute daily to our body of knowledge. We need your help to make this new site the most effective tool it can be.

Please look through the Resource Center, share materials with your colleagues, share your feedback with us and send us your own suggestions for materials and topic areas that should be added or developed further.

Contact us any time at resourcecenter@revenuewatch.org.

To get started, please visit http://resources.revenuewatch.org, or click on Resource Center under "Our Work" at the top of the Revenue Watch web site.